LIFE IN THE END ZONE

British researchers recently projected care needs of the very old.  We would do well to pay attention to their analysis—or, if we think Ame...

For years, I’ve been arguing that frail older patients are often better off being treated for acute medical problems at home than in the ...

Think “A Man Called Ove,” Fredrik Backman’s bittersweet novel about a lonely man who tries repeatedly and unsuccessfully to commit suicide...

Hospice is widely touted as the best form of care near the end of life. As a result, the proportion of people who are enrolled in hospice a...

The most promising treatment of Alzheimer’s disease to date uses monoclonal antibodies to rid the brain of amyloid plaques. These plaques a...

Kudos to Judith Graham of Kaiser Health News for yet again identifying a new development that has the potential to enormously affect the me...

Nearly 30 years have passed since Congress passed the Patient Self-Determination Act, enthroning advance care planning as an important part...

Honoring patient preferences, which is shorthand for providing an approach to medical treatment consistent with what patients say they want...

I once called MedPAC the most influential organization in the medical arena that most Americans have never heard of. That was in a blog pos...

Recent reports indicate that Congress will try to slash Medicare in order to balance the budget—making older people and disabled people sho...